Re: Qmail crashing TCP/IP-stack

[Jason Haar]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:59:44AM -0800, Mark Delany wrote:
> > The problem, as I see it, is that POP3 and SMTP are not designed for the
> > transmission of large binary messages. They are designed for the
> > transmission of short-to-medium-sized text messages. Unfortunately, users
> 
> A lot of people say this and I don't see a particular reason why it
> should be the case. Both POP and SMTP do little more than read a file

1.2M is not big. 

Our site regularly sends >100Mb Email messages through MS
Exchange/Sendmail/Qmail - "my *&^% is bigger than yours!" ;-)

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Cheers

Jason Haar

Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417